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On Twitter I noticed few weeks ago some webmasters were talking about possible Panda update that could happened after some organic traffic decreased. At the same time at SMX conference Googler Gary Illyes said that Panda algorithm is constantly running, instantly.
Yesterday in Google+ hangout...

Google has informed via Google+ page about implementing of a new Adwords format for ad snippets named dynamic structured snippets. This text will be automatically showed with your search ads. There will be displayed industry-specific, structured information about your products and services...

That is correct Temi. In his latest video hangout John Mueller said that it would be better for webmasters to stop building backlinks. But at the same time it does not mean that there are no safe ways to build strong backlinks.
Also backlinks still is one of the most important ranking factor.

Link building in post Penguin and Panda period changed a lot. Majority of techniques that worked 3-5 years ago today would be considered as spam by Google team. John Mueller few days ago said that it is better to stop doing link building if you do not want to harm your site's rankings.
In this...

All webmaster world was waiting for Penguin update almost a year, the last one was in October 2013. And few weeks ago it was finally updated. Actually it was not update but refresh since the new signals were not added.
What about your sites? Do you have any improvements or decrease in rankings...

I just saw a post by John Mueller on Google Webmaster Forum where he said that Google have not updated Penguin but it does not matter that you can't be recovered. Here is the full post of John:
"In theory: If a site is affected by any specific algorithm or its data, and it fixes the issue that...

New design looks good. But works a little slow for me. Pingdom shows that you have what to improve in terms of load speed. http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/ddhM6z/http://www.vijaywebsolutions.com/. Also I can't find meta description tag. It may help you to make attractive snippet.
On such pages...

Google changed their search ranking algorithm to give more weight to the sites with HTTPS but does it impact your rankings in fact?
Barry Schwartz recently moved his site SERoundTable.com to secure SSL certificate and noticed that Twitter has outranked his site for [seroundtable] keyword...

Probably the next Penguin update will be rolled out very soon according to John Mueller from Google. In the video below he pointed that engineers from Goolge webspam team is working with the new update but it will not be launched in the next few days. So you have a week or so to be ready…
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It depends on regions and in what search engine they were shown. For example you can rank high in google.co.uk but do not appear in 100 in google.ca. In webmaster Tool they just show the average position.

Google improved a process of submitting reconsideration request in Webmaster Tools. Now they're showing the original RR and add their text "We have received a request from a site owner how we index the following site".
Previously they just confirmed they received a request and then usually...

Maybe some people already know that but for me it was new :). You can't create a file or a folder in Windows with the name 'con'.
This is something pretty interesting... There are few versions why you can't do that and one of them is:
It was a nickname of Bill Gates at school and he was not...

Apple's iPad send more than 70% of worldwide traffic to internet sites among all tablets. Android holds only 25. Similar situation in smartphones world but among the brands: Apple holds almost 53% when Samsumg 25%, LG, 4.8%, Motorolla 3.5%...
But analytics data for smartphones related only...

Seems that even very strong links can harm your site. One user received a notification from Google Webmaster team about unnatural links that point to his site. In the example was one link from Moz site. Rand Fishkin asked Matt Cutts what is a problem and here is what Matt responded:
Hey, the...

According to the latest research busy twitter accounts indexing better in Google than less active accounts. In the research they reviewed more than 900 accounts. Those that has more than 1 million followers showed higher indexation.
Maybe it was due to active number of posts on that...

Google has panalized two link networks in Poland few days ago. Karolina Kruszynska from Google Poland confirmed to Barry Schwartz that Google took an action on some Poland link networks.
"We took action on two link networks."
Matt Cutts : " Yes. I didn't tweet about it because people have...